'Changeling' definitions:
Definition of 'changeling'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Changeling'
From: GCIDE
- Changeling \Change"ling\, n. [Change + -ling.]
- 1. One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies. [1913 Webster]
- Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- The changeling [a substituted writing] never known. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A simpleton; an idiot. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out. [1913 Webster]
- Wildly we roam in discontent about. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One apt to change; a waverer. "Fickle changelings." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Changeling'
From: GCIDE
- Changeling \Change"ling\, a.
- 1. Taken or left in place of another; changed. "A little changeling boy." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Given to change; inconstant. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Some are so studiously changeling. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'changeling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- backup,
- change,
- comparison,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- double,
- dummy,
- elf child,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- fake,
- fill-in,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- imitation,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- next best thing,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- proxy,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- second string,
- secondary,
- sign,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent